Ardor

(noun.) feelings of great warmth and intensity; 'he spoke with great ardor'.

(noun.) intense feeling of love.

(noun.) a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause); 'they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor'; 'he felt a kind of religious zeal'.

校对:朗达

• Filled with the ardor of research Davy went on with his experiments at Clifton. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Her efforts in this line, however, were brought to an abrupt close by an untoward accident, which quenched her ardor. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• His ardor had worn him out, and he was forced to take a holiday at Penzance. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• From fire to oil was a natural transition for burned fingers, and Amy fell to painting with undiminished ardor. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• They began to master the energies and dull the ardor of the party. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• They may be taken by storm and for the moment converted, becoming part of the soul which enwraps them in the ardor of its movement. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It wo uld encourage the best geometers to seek with renewed ardor the eternal truths which, in Pliny's phrase, are latent in the majesty of theory. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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